Where did this BOGUS file come from.
This is possibly a stupid question, but I don't know where to look for an answer. If you feel you must flame me, please spare the list and email me directly. Running qmail 1.03 on SunOS 5.6 Had a user complaining that an important email never arrived. Poking around in their home directory I found this file ... -rw--- 1 root users 12618 Oct 24 08:34 BOGUS.LtFK looking at its contents... there are 3 emails in it. 2 addressed to the user implicitly and another to a list he subscribed to. Questions: Why weren't these messages piped to the users .mail file ? Is the BOGUS.* file a normal qmail operation ? and if so, what might help to prevent this problem in the future. Any insights greatly apreciated. TIA Duane L - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
Re: Where did this BOGUS file come from.
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 01:00:58PM -0700, Duane L. wrote: > [...] Had a user complaining that an important > email never arrived. Poking around in their home directory I found this > file ... > -rw--- 1 root users 12618 Oct 24 08:34 BOGUS.LtFK > > looking at its contents... there are 3 emails in it. 2 addressed to the > user implicitly and another to a list he subscribed to. > > Questions: > Why weren't these messages piped to the users .mail file ? > > Is the BOGUS.* file a normal qmail operation ? and if so, what might help > to prevent this problem in the future. No, qmail doesn't generate BOGUS files by itself. Something is causing qmail to generate it. What do the logs say? PGP signature
Re: Where did this BOGUS file come from.
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 01:01:20PM -0700, Duane L. wrote: > > This is possibly a stupid question, but I don't know where to look for an > answer. If you feel you must flame me, please spare the list and email me > directly. > > > Running qmail 1.03 on SunOS 5.6 Had a user complaining that an important > email never arrived. Poking around in their home directory I found this > file ... > -rw--- 1 root users 12618 Oct 24 08:34 BOGUS.LtFK > > looking at its contents... there are 3 emails in it. 2 addressed to the > user implicitly and another to a list he subscribed to. > > Questions: > Why weren't these messages piped to the users .mail file ? How do you know they weren't? All you know is that a copy showed up in the BOGUS.* file. > Is the BOGUS.* file a normal qmail operation ? and if so, what might help > to prevent this problem in the future. No. It's entirely something specific to your site. Furthermore, it has been created by root and, qmail does not run any user processes as root - ever. Who has root on that system? Have you asked all those people? > Any insights greatly apreciated. Show us the logs of the delivery of those emails. You have the headers of those mails so you can find the log framents. Also, you need to tell us more about your qmail installation. Is it standard or is it modified in some way? What delivery instructions are there for the user in question? Regards.
Re: Where did this BOGUS file come from.
Alex Pennace wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 01:00:58PM -0700, Duane L. wrote: > > [...] Had a user complaining that an important > > email never arrived. Poking around in their home directory I found this > > file ... > > -rw--- 1 root users 12618 Oct 24 08:34 BOGUS.LtFK > > > > looking at its contents... there are 3 emails in it. 2 addressed to the > > user implicitly and another to a list he subscribed to. > > > > Questions: > > Why weren't these messages piped to the users .mail file ? > > > > Is the BOGUS.* file a normal qmail operation ? and if so, what might help > > to prevent this problem in the future. > > No, qmail doesn't generate BOGUS files by itself. Something is causing > qmail to generate it. What do the logs say? Well, > > -rw--- 1 root users 12618 Oct 24 08:34 BOGUS.LtFK I don't think qmail would create a file owned by root! Daniel Augusto Fernandes (DAF tm) [EMAIL PROTECTED] GCSNethttp://www.gcsnet.com.br/ Se você não encontra o sentido das coisas é porque este não se encontra, se cria. Antoine Saint-Exupéry
Re: Where did this BOGUS file come from.
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 01:01:20PM -0700, Duane L. wrote: > Running qmail 1.03 on SunOS 5.6 Had a user complaining that an important > email never arrived. Poking around in their home directory I found this > file ... > -rw--- 1 root users 12618 Oct 24 08:34 BOGUS.LtFK > > looking at its contents... there are 3 emails in it. 2 addressed to the > user implicitly and another to a list he subscribed to. > > Questions: > Why weren't these messages piped to the users .mail file ? > > Is the BOGUS.* file a normal qmail operation ? and if so, what might help > to prevent this problem in the future. The BOGUS files almost certainly came from procmail, when it discovered that something was odd (in its opinion) with directory permissions or some such. -- Bruce Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ PGP signature
Re: Where did this BOGUS file come from.
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 04:30:09PM -0400, Alex Pennace wrote: > On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 01:00:58PM -0700, Duane L. wrote: > > [...] Had a user complaining that an important > > email never arrived. Poking around in their home directory I found this > > file ... > > -rw--- 1 root users 12618 Oct 24 08:34 BOGUS.LtFK > > There is a mail client that creates BOGUS.* files. I can't remember which one. > > looking at its contents... there are 3 emails in it. 2 addressed to the > > user implicitly and another to a list he subscribed to. > > > > Questions: > > Why weren't these messages piped to the users .mail file ? > > > > Is the BOGUS.* file a normal qmail operation ? and if so, what might help > > to prevent this problem in the future. > > No, qmail doesn't generate BOGUS files by itself. Something is causing > qmail to generate it. What do the logs say? -- Christopher F. Miller, Publisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] MaineStreet Communications, Inc 208 Portland Road, Gray, ME 04039 1.207.657.5078 http://www.maine.com/ Database publishing, e-commerce, office/internet integration, Debian linux.
Re: Where did this BOGUS file come from.
> Is the BOGUS.* file a normal qmail operation ? and if so, what might help > to prevent this problem in the future. Files that have 'BOGUS' in their name make me suspect procmail as the culprit. If you use procmail I'd start by looking there. -- Jamie Heilman http://audible.transient.net/~jamie/ "You came all this way way without saying squat and now you're trying to tell me a '56 Chevy can beat a '47 Buick in a dead quarter mile? I liked you better when you weren't saying squat kid." -Buddy
